This is the story of veteran Communist Seán Edwards who as a young man joined The Communist Party of Ireland.

He was a founding member of the Irish Anti Apartheid Movement and in a short time was involved in the boycott of South African goods.
In addition Edwards was active with the Anti Nuclear Movement, Dublin Housing Action Committee and Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign to name but a few.

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Many thanks to Irish Republican Marxist History Project for sending this on…
The book launch of “From The GPO To The Winter Palace: How a Workers’ Revolution Was Lost & How a Workers’ Revolution Was Won” by Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Introduced by Joan Collins TD

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The Irish Republican Marxist History Project has an article appeared in the London monthly of the Irish Workers’ Group, “Irish Militant”, in May 1966 reflecting on the Easter Rising.
It can be read here

On Saturday 12th December 2015, a very interesting Frank Conroy Commemoration took place in The Liffey Studio , Newbridge. With the screening of The Republican Congress Presented by Donal Fallon and Directed by Donal Higgins . The documentary tells the story of the political organisation that was founded in 1934 by Left-wing Republicans Frank Ryan, George Gilmore and Peadar O’Donnell.
Donal Higgins said” I was attracted to the story of the Republican Congress as it seems to me to be a fairly
overlooked part of our history. In fairness, the Congress only lasted two years, so it’s not surprising that they’ve
been overlooked. But these were the people who went to Spain to defend Republican values at a time when the
whole country was supporting Franco. I also think that the Congress has some resonances for society today”.

Paul McCormack sang “Men and women heard the call and went to fight for good and all and in the ranks there standing tall a young man named Frank Conroy”. As he entertained the crowd including councillor Reada Cronin, at the Frank Conroy commemoration who died in 1936 fighting with the International Brigade.

20 members of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) resigned on 1 December 1975. Two days earlier, 11 members of its National Executive had walked out of an Ard Comhairle in a dispute over control of the INLA. These included Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, who had helped found the party the previous year with chairman Seamus Costello, and meant that the presence of the IRSP in Northern Ireland was substantially weakened.